Voices of the Earth - Wunderlich Park

Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond is a geo-located audio experience. Listeners will be guided to various locations around the park, where they will gain access to quotations and excerpts of works by various writers, artists, environmentalists, and leaders. Each location's audio ("Echo") includes carefully curated content for your listening pleasure, so please pause to listen while you take in the nearby scenery.

This is an in-progress version of the Stanford COVID-19 Memorial Soundwalk

There are seven sites placed around the Googleplex. Each is a space where we can offer our body as a living sacrifice to God.

Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond is a geo-located audio experience. Listeners will be guided to various locations around the park, where they will gain access to quotations and excerpts of works by various writers, artists, environmentalists, and leaders. Each location's audio ("Echo") includes carefully curated content for your listening pleasure, so please pause to listen while you take in the nearby scenery.

Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond is a geo-located audio experience. Listeners will be guided to various locations around the park, where they will gain access to quotations and excerpts of works by various writers, artists, environmentalists, and leaders. Each location's audio ("Echo") includes carefully curated content for your listening pleasure, so please pause to listen while you take in the nearby scenery.

Walk from the Hunters Point Shipyard 'Decommissioned' exhibit, building 101, up to the overlook where you can see the whole shipyard! Listen to the voices of naval archive recordings as you walk, including marching bands, ceremonies, and the voices of men sending audio tapes home to their loved ones.

Parkmerced is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It was designed by architects Leonard Schultze and Thomas Dolliver Church in the early 1940s. Parkmerced is the second-largest single-owner neighborhood of apartment blocks west of the Mississippi River after Park La Brea in Los Angeles.

Growth is a sound art experience that begins at the 1969 Ruth Asawa mosaic of the same name at 580 Capp St. It's a series of guided meditations situated in the urban landscape of the Mission. Participants are invited to slow down, listen, reflect on the past, and contemplate our collective responsibility to future generations. Proceed to each stop from west to east. This experience will take approximately 50-60 minutes. Wear comfortable shoes, use headphones, and please stay alert to traffic and other hazards while you walk. Produced by Rumi Koshino and Fereshteh Toosi as part of the Oil Ancestors project, with music by Danny Paul Grody. http://oilancestors.com/growth Rumi Koshino is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in San Francisco. Her intuitive process of making art is informed by everyday experiences as well as social, emotional, and political climates that surround it. She recently published a limited-edition art book, Solo Walks -The First 100 Days, from RITE Editions. Rumi will be a resident artist at AGA Lab in Amsterdam in 2021. She holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Washington. https://rumikoshino.com/ Fereshteh Toosi's artworks foster animistic connections through encounter, exchange, and sensory inquiry. Fereshteh lives and works in El Portal, Florida, on stolen lands still stewarded by the Miccosukee and Seminole people. Responding to place, Fereshteh designs experiences for small audiences. These intimate, immersive live art events are often produced in conjunction with small sculptures, short films, installations, scores, and poetry. http://fereshteh.net Danny Paul Grody is a solo musician and founding member of San Francisco based bands Tarentel and The Drift. He is a self taught guitarist, and the melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of West African kora, finger-style guitar and all things minimal, repetitive & hypnotic. https://dannypaulgrody.wordpress.com

"Portals: Visions of Freedom and Abolition in The Past and Future" documents how it feels to walk through neighborhoods in San Francisco as Black, Queer and Trans people. Using emotionally charged textured soundscapes and spoken word testimony of racial profiling and sentiments about the police, this sound art experience explores themes of alienation and abolition. Portals begins at the corner of Sycamore Street and 623 Valencia Street in the Mission. Participants are then guided to the opening of Clarion Alley, where they will be led through the mural-filled passage. The soundwalk features abstract emotional textured soundscape loops, spoken word, and audio that directly interacts with the content of some of the murals. It takes place primarily in Clarion Alley and addresses how the alley in and of itself is a creative space that serves as a portal into past (and idealized) versions of the Mission, when it wasn’t as gentrified and sterile and when freaks, punks, and artists flourished in the neighborhood. Produced and composed by Elsa Trash, Labryssa Deskins, and Titania Kumeh as part of the Big Freak artist collective and band based in Oakland, California.